Our
Lord Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount takes as His premise
encouragement of believers. With each statement of fact; whether you
are poor in spirit, or mourning over sin or possessing a meek spirit
or extending mercy to those who have been beaten up by their sin or
hungering and thirsting for the Word of God, there is a promise of
reward. And now another statement of truth: the pure in heart are
those believers in Christ who have been redeemed, purchased by the
blood of Christ, adopted into the family of God. Their reward is
ultimately to see God in all of His fullness and glory.